Leo, who immigrated to America from Germany in 2006, looks & is 25 years old. So he didn't expect Americans to suggest thast he was somehow implicated in the Holocaust & they didn't. But he still finds that being in America has given him reason to be embarrassed by his German background. How come????

Is Leo Jewish? Do people think he might be? Is it relevant that he is 25? Relevant when he was born? Or when he emigrated? Are anti-German sentiments relevant? Left-over resentment from the war? Are World Wars 1 or 2 at all relevant? Any other historical events? Does Leo look particularly German? Or speak with a German accent? Or do people not know he is German until he tells them? Relevant? Does he speak English well? Is the German language relevant? Are any specific aspects of German? Or American? culture relevant? Are cultural differences relevant? Does Leo make an embarrassing faux pas because of a difference between the two countries? Does he have to be German for this to work? Or could he be of a different background? Could this work if he had moved to a different country than America? To people expect Leo to act in a certain way, or to have a specific characteristic, because he is German that he does not have?

Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 10:16 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is Leo Jewish? irrel Do people think he might be? ditto Is it relevant that he is 25? yope Relevant when he was born? yes Or when he emigrated? noAre anti-German sentiments relevant? noLeft-over resentment from the war? no Are World Wars 1 or 2 at all relevant? noAny other historical events?noish or yopeDoes Leo look particularly German?see next answer Or speak with a German accent? ditto Or do people not know he is German until he tells them? { ditto}Relevant? Well, he's embarrassed only when people know he is GermanDoes he speak English well? yesIs the German language relevant? noAre any specific aspects of German? no Or American? yesish culture relevant? Are cultural differences relevant? yope Does Leo make an embarrassing faux pas because of a difference between the two countries? noDoes he have to be German for this to work? yes Or could he be of a different background? no Could this work if he had moved to a different country than America? yesTo people expect Leo to act in a certain way, or to have a specific characteristic, because he is German that he does not have? no

Was he born in 1983? 1982? Were there any relevant events in Germany in the year of his birth? Is the Berlin Wall relevant? Was he born in East Germany? West Germany? Did he or his parents receive any financial subsidies?

Would he be equally embarrassed in front of his fellow Germans?

Would it help for us to find out the reasons for his emigration?

Does he have a criminal record? Did Germany in 1982-1983 have some legislation which allowed him to travel to America, that other nations would not have?

Did he feel that he had received a special privilege relative to the Americans? Relative to his fellow Germans? Did he discover something in America that he would not have discovered in Germany?

Are immigration quotas relevant at all?

Are legal drinking ages relevant?

Are the circumstances of his birth relevant? Are abortion laws relevant?

Is he simply ashamed to be associated with Kraftwerk, without whom US electronic music might never have been quite the same?

Was he born in 1983? irrel 1982? ditto Were there any relevant events in Germany in the year of his birth? no Is the Berlin Wall relevant? no Was he born in East Germany? irrel West Germany? ditto Did he or his parents receive any financial subsidies? ditto

Would he be equally embarrassed in front of his fellow Germans? no

Would it help for us to find out the reasons for his emigration? no

Does he have a criminal record? irrel Did Germany in 1982-1983 have some legislation which allowed him to travel to America, that other nations would not have? no

Did he feel that he had received a special privilege relative to the Americans? noRelative to his fellow Germans? no Did he discover something in America that he would not have discovered in Germany? no

Are immigration quotas relevant at all? no

Are legal drinking ages relevant? no

Are the circumstances of his birth relevant? noAre abortion laws relevant? no

Is he simply ashamed to be associated with Kraftwerk, without whom US electronic music might never have been quite the same? no

BLOOOOOOOPERRRRRRALERRRTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!Is it relevant that he is 25? yope Relevant when he was born? yes. While there is undoubtedly a time that would be too early fot this puzzle, any time after WW II is fine; so his precise year of birth is irrel

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does he arrive in the US in an unusual way? no Is he an airline pilot? noDdrapayo (Ddrapayo) New member Username: Ddrapayo

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could this work if he'd moved to England? I think so but am, not certainTo Canada? ditto Australia? ditto Thailand? less likely India? same as England Israel? maybe a bit less likely that UKCould this puzzle work if he was from Austria? noIf he had German parents, but was born in the US?probably notDlcygnet (Dlcygnet) New member Username: Dlcygnet

Does he have a German name? Does his name, when coupled with his job, sound funny in English? Is his name particularly appropriate to his job? Or particularly inappropriate? Is it a surname or a first name that is relevant here?

Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 4:36 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Does he have a German name?The only thing relevant about his name is trhat it's Leo Does his name, when coupled with his job, sound funny in English? yesish yope Or particularly inappropriate? Is it a surname or a first name that is relevant here? Leo is more likely to be a first name, but if it's his surname, that would work, too

BLOOOOOOOOPERRRRRALERTTTTTTT!!!!!!!Does his name, when coupled with his job, sound funny in English? yesish yope Or particularly inappropriate? The first answer should be yesish; the second should be yope

Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 10:55 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Does "leo" sound like a chemistry term? yope Is "leo" also the name of a pharmaceutical company? no Is "leo" the name of the chemistry book author? no Is there a "Leo" joke that comes up frequently? yesish

Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 3:10 am: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is it have anything to do with "Leo the Lion says Ger" which is a trick we learned about something chemistry which I can't remember. yesish

This is close enough for me to declare a

************* SPOILER ***************** When I took chemistry in high school, wwe were given the mnemonic "LEO the GERman" for "lose electrons=oxidize, gain electrons=reduce."This device wouldn't work in German, of course, so Leo didn't learn about it until he became in chemist in the US. Sorry it was so easy, & please check out my new, harder puzzle, at the bottom of the page, of course

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